No End in Sight "has the White House spooked.''

Thu Aug 09, 2007 at 12:54:30 AM PDT
Sidney Blumenthal, with his usual elegant prose, has a piece on Salon laying out the White House fears that Colin Powell will come out of hiding in time to deny them the impact of Petraeus' september report.
Although the piece focuses in main on Powell, the fuel for the fire of fear comes from Charles Ferguson's excellent documentary No End in Sight
Blumenthal says:
The release of a documentary on the administration's failures in Iraq, "No End in Sight," directed by Charles Ferguson, has the White House spooked. Bush's aides are not worried because the film is brilliantly shot and edited, or because it is compelling, but because of what -- or whose appearance -- it might augur to upset their September rollout.
In particular, Ferguson snagged Richard Armitage, Powell's right hand man.
This confirms my suspicions: this movie, which tells of the Iraq occupation fiasco from the insider's perspective, has the potential to push people off the fence, and, in my view, towards veto proof majorities in congress, and the White House wants to squash it. Is that why he is virtually blacked out from the TV and most major radio outlets?
According to Blumenthal, the concern from the White House about No End In Sight is that
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